#because he's a horrible person. literally a slave owner.

[rjalker]

most sarcastic pride art I've ever created. This dream was very specific.

Reblog to kill him.

[ID: The orange, gold, white, sky blue, and dark blue aroace flag, with white text along the top and bottom combining to read sarcastically, "Diversity win, this slave owner is aroace, (and so is his fucking victim)." In the center of the drawing, surrounded by sarcastic white sparkles, is a pencil drawing of a white man with short hair and a long sleeved shirt, looking off to the side sadly. In his arms he holds a large egret, a type of water bird with a long curved neck, and a long thin beak. End ID.]

[maxzinn]

off topic but also on topic its so clear that the genshin/star rail (saying both cause theres a large overlap) have no capability of thinking.

there are so many fics where *reader* somehow becomes a (sex)slave or is forced to do horrible shit and just general dead dove behavior. the fact that the author used INGAME LORE, CANON BACKSTORY FOR THE CHARACTER proves how braindead so many people are.

like people try to free slaves/captors in media isnt a new thing. theres a lot of art of that angelhusk ship where one gambles for the others freedom (never watched it but its an example)

like having slaves/captors in media isnt new and never has been but the only reason people truely care is because its a hoyoverse game and cant handle anything darker or complex then a PG rating

(sorry anon, I got carried away with this one tee-hee)

YOU'RE SO REAL FOR THIS!!! y'know I was sooo confused when people started screaming for blood when the authors are using his IN-GAME LORE in their fics and then claims that the people who enjoyed writing those have "white-knight syndrome" like cmon sjsadhjg you're giving me a fucking stroke.

I'll say it again, wanting to give slave aventurine or someone a better life DOESN'T mean they have "white-knight syndrome" when they have good intentions!!! We were all were crying for him and his tragic past, we all wanted to comfort him, and we at some point also wished for his salvation and the betterment of his life. These people need to stop throwing these "white-knight syndrome" accusations cuz it's definitely not about that. And like you said, it was his IN-GAME LORE. I already expected some authors to write about reader saving him from his slavery and there's nothing wrong with that! Cuz please, don't tell me you won't help the guy out of his abusive owner, let's be fr here.

Like you also said, many have been writing yandere/heavy dark themes about reader being literally SA'd and R'd by said character (do not tell me you guys haven't read all those fics where Aven was our debt collector and in paying our debt, he noncon or manipulated us into sleeping with him 💀) and now they wanna talk about morals?

And please, don't even try bringing up Romania or irl people in here. IT'S A FICTIONAL RACE IN A FICTIONAL STORY. it may be "inspired" like they said, but it's not directly addressing Romania!!

I get their point alright, I truly do. Like I said in my other post, I do not condone the sex slave! aus about aventurine and the master/slave bdsm cuz his story truly hurt me and I'm uncomfortable sexualizing his slavery when I know about his story and what happened to him as a slave. But I won't go as far as to actually send death threats to those authors and act like a hypocrite💀 people can write what they want to write and I don't have to read those writings if I don't wanna.

Just to say, I'm a yandere/dark-content enjoyer as well, it's just that I draw the line when it comes to aventurine cuz I just wanna cuddle and dote on that man and give him all the love and affection in the world. but like I said, am no hypocrite as well. (sorry if I can't explain it very well but I hope you get the gist of it)

It's just funny and baffling how people are like "eww this person wrote a fic about reader buying slave aventurine so they can be a good owner to him".... this is leaving me speechless how they turned an act with good intentions into something malicious... that poor author doesn't even have bad intentions when writing that fic.

When you apply their logic, it's like saying "this person adopted an abused child so that they can be a good parent to that child, disgusting" do they even realize how stupid they sound??? 😭

[mermaidsirennikita]

Louis de Pointe du Lac, as originally written, could be regarded as one of lit's most famous "also rans", someone who was originally positioned as Thee Tragic Figure of the series, only to be almost immediately superseded both in the readers' and the author's minds with Lestat. Like, you know Louis because of the original book, but Lestat is the one everyone talks about, Lestat drives the rest of the series, Lestat has all the best lines.

And the movie, as much as I personally don't like it, only sort of dug this further into the pop cultural understanding of the story. Brad Pitt is at his most "I am relying on pretty" boring and sulky; when there is a performance, it's largely annoying. And Tom Cruise... I mean, it's literally nothing next to what Sam Reid does in my mind, but it was at least very off-brand for him at the time, and he was doing SOMETHING, and he (and Kirsten Dunst) have the most iconic Moments, the camp, the arguably most memorable part of the movie (the very end with the Sympathy for the Devil cover playing us off).

So it's honestly SUCH a testament to the innovation of the show's writing and the brilliance of Jacob Anderson's performance that Louis has been reinvented, not only as a compelling protagonist, but as a character that is EASILY as complex and multilayered as more traditionally antiheroic/villainous types like Lestat and Armand and Claudia. He's more than the beautiful, tragic object of Lestat and Armand's affections, he's more than the guy telling us the story.

Louis is self-loathing and self-aggrandizing; he's victimized by Lestat, and he manipulates Lestat, very aware of his own emotional hold over him (might we note how much agency Louis had over Claudia's turning, and how Lestat in no way would've done that if not for Louis... and that act was arguably one of the most selfish in the series, if emotionally understandable). He's controlled by Armand, yet we get hints that he's actually quite dangerous and perhaps in some sort of self-delusion about just how dangerous he is (and Assad certainly plays Armand like he's nervous as fuck about Louis knowing the truth--and I don't think that's JUST about the possibility of Louis leaving him once he finds out).

Louis tells himself that he loved Claudia more than anything and that she was his "spark in the dark", when we see that in reality their relationship deteriorated over time and continued to do so, even after the person who was seemingly a wedge in their relationship was vanquished. We see hints, perhaps, that Claudia was no more the ideal daughter in his mind than Lestat was the ideal lover.

And that last scene in the premiere? When we're not sure who the "you" is? Sad and kind of horrifying, too. Because like--what will Louis do to Claudia to further his own love and obsessions? Who does Louis prioritize more--Claudia, Lestat, Armand? Maybe none of the above. Maybe himself and what or who he thinks will stave off his own loneliness, his need for love and validation and, yes, power.

None of this is a criticism of the character. The show already did something SO good and SO smart by turning Louis from a white slave owner to a Black man with money and social standing, still so held back by the laws and environment of his day. Vampirism gave him agency, yet the show, in season one, showed the potential for Louis to still be the perpetual tragic victim (in episode five especially). And maybe they'll still slip up and do that.

But increasingly, with the reveal in the s1 finale and the s2 premiere, I think we're getting the implication that the thing Louis could be protecting himself from mentally (with some help from Armand--I don't think Louis's memory issues are all Vampire Magic, though) is something horrible that he did. A choice he made. Because Louis does have agency, and the narrative allows him to be someone with conflicted desires and a complicated sense of self. Someone who doesn't love PRETTILY. Someone who is manipulated and manipulates.

Like, I've joked about him being this kind of like vampiric Helen of Troy because of the allure he holds for powerful figures like Lestat and Armand, but I also think it's so powerful to explore the way that Louis uses that appeal and ALSO makes fucked up decisions on his own because he is... into being adored, frankly. Even if the people who adore him also hurt him. He gets caught up in his own romanticized retellings of his life story, whether heartfelt or tragic, because in those retellings he can pretend that he had no choice, he had no ability to say otherwise.

But like--Louis could have stopped that woman from being decapitated, potentially. Louis didn't have to walk away from human affairs. He chose to do so, just like he chose to beg Lestat to turn Claudia. Just like he chose to deny her Lestat's true death.

And I think there's like, an attempt to reckon with this in the unreliable narration of the books, but I also think that this is so dependent, in Anne Rice's version, on spinning to Lestat... That Louis's culpability and untruths are overshadowed by his Everything. Here, the story lets us soak in Louis's mind, and Jacob Anderson's performance really seals that. I find it so smart.

[timingmatters]

Okay I’m on ep 27 of the remarried empress and while i started out HATING Rashta i do have to say i have come to feel bad for her. She was a slave who was used by a rich boy she SERVED to (the power imbalance of it all) and then abandoned with child, then made to believe her child was killed (or maybe sadly it WAS killed). She is clearly uneducated and has suffered a lot. In an empire where it is known nobles take lovers outside of the marriage and its seem as normal, I can’t blame her for using her charms as survival with the emperor. And while to me the issue is not that, but rather that she sees too quick and comfortable putting other women and the empress in harm’s way to get her way (absolutely not justifiable), I do feel like so far as of chap 27 she is clearly super uneducated and being used by all these different men. She took advantage of the emperor’s attention to survive, but it was HIM who constantly disrespected the empress first. The former slave owner (who either had her believe he killed her child or actually did, so absolutely FUCK him) is using her too. And now this other guy seems to be playing with her too but I feel like he might be using her for a bigger plan. She seems younger than the empress too. She is super uneducated, traumatized, young as hell, and out of her depth. Can’t say she is a bad person for trying the only thing she has (her looks) and use them for her own survival. And given that the empire has slavery as legal, I can’t put it on her if she also feels animosity towards nobles and blames the empress too. Like, is not even that she was an illegal slave, she was “legally” abused as a slave. If the empire had slavery as something illegal that would be much different. In her position i would also feel little remorse about what I’m doing in order to survive around people who both legitimize and practice slavery.

All that said, it is clear since the beginning she still takes pleasure on fucking up the empress, which has always been uncalled for. I truly hated her, but the more I see of her background the less i dislike her. I still don’t like her at all, but its silly and blind to treat her as the biggest enemy on the story when it is clear all these men keep using her and that she is a victim of the own system put in place. So far in the story (i keep emphasizing that because I know the story is ongoing on s3 with like 140 eps so things might change drastically) but kinda just want her punishment to be to go away. No physical harm, no jail, no nothing. Her biggest crime has been to break a marriage, which she did as a means of survival. Like, she really didn’t do anything THAT evil. It is horrible but like her own experiences were more horrid and those people bared no punishment because her slavery is legal. Again, can’t blame her for much. I’m sure most women would do the same in her position so far. How could you not? Is literally survival. Surviving vs simply becoming a lover of a marriage between rich people (where taking in lovers is legal) is not the worst crime ever.

I do hope the story demolishes the practice of slavery by the end. To continue to make her a villain and have slavery as a legal and “fair” system would SUCK amongst a story otherwise interesting enough with lovely art would be a waste (and I LOVE when the ML is pathetic and whipped over the FL, so I love how much he blushes).

[minthe-lover]

Chapter 230 analysis.

Okay so this chapter fucking such, it's clear that rs is trying to remove any nuance from her story and just wants to push hades and persephone together. The next chapters are going to get worse and worse with rs just throwing away any important plot or persephone clearly stated comfort about how she wants her relationship to go. It's deeply uncomfortable to watch and it gets worse, Rs could have wrote a interesting and complicated view of motherhood in the face of immortality and in a world that abuses women. Instead rs just wants a creepy romance with nothing else to it.

Even with the amount of effort rs is putting into reckoning Demeter to be fully evil... she's still right. Plus rs just keeps drawing panels.. that are both creepy and that I can't help but see symbolize in ways that I'm positive she isn't intending the meaning. Like this panel, hades is covering her eyes to the truth of the situation and his arms are their threatening behind her a dark remember that he always has a hold on her.

Now lets start with just an extremely dumb reckon by rs with the whole dress thing. Now there are two big problems with it, the first being that in this chapter is clearly being written to be another way demeter controls her which is a connection that has never been made before. We've really never seen demeter mention the colour of her clothes.. we've seen a few mentions of persephone not wearing more provocative clothes around her mother.. which is just a completely normal thing to do.

Now the next big thing is that demeter is talking about the colour of the dress, and not like.. anything else. This completely falls flat because rs herself said that she dresses persephone in white to compliment hades black suits ie a bride and groom. We see persephone repeatedly choose to wear white in situation that demeter has no control over her... persephone almost always wears white.

Now again rs is making small things that make no sense if you think about it for like more then a few second. Before it was made very clear that demeter spring was super organized and planned, it was never described as having alot of pageantry nor as costly. The cost of spring was something never mention and it was all just magic.. their is no cost in that. Also if anything given how persephone idea of spring is explained, if anything she's the one with more pageantry.

Now again Demeter made a point that is right, Persephone has become incredibly materialistic. We repeatedly see her spending money on this unneeded and any anti-capitalism sentiments that she holds are all but disappeared. She's supposed to be this stronger willed and more self assured person but she still buckles and fails to even decided on her own coronation.

It's clear that hades is having a huge negative effect on her in that regard, he's a literal slave owner. he hasn't made any changes to how he rules or even acts as a boss. He's still a shitty and cruel person.. and persephone is following suit, she becoming a shitty and cruel person.

Now again rs keeps reckoning even simple thing that we've seen only a few chapters before. Like we saw just a few chapters ago we see demeter praise persephone but rs decided it wasn't enough so decided to change that... but even then the things that demeter brought up where like.. yeah persephone isn't fit to be queen.

At best we've seen her in charge of the mortal realm for ten years, and at least from what demeter has said she didn't really do the best. More importantly it's important to take into account that like.. yeah.. persephone isn't fit to fun the underworld. We haven't even seen her do anything in regards to that. We've mainly seen her treat the citizens of the underworld like shit, either threatening them or just scaring them.

We are supposed to take this as demeter being horrible and cruel.. but again she is telling the truth Persephone isn't ready to take control of a kingdom. She is responsible for the lives of others, we've already seen her use her status to threaten those beneath her. How is she going to deal with being a queen and the fact that people will not always like her because of that. We barely see her leadership skills, and the ones we are shown are on such a smaller scale then what she needs.

Again rs is desperate to make demeter such a huge villain but it falls flat because rs refuses to even like consider the flaws of the main characters and instead just pushes the romance of hades and persephone together.

Rs refuses to say admit how much of a huge asshole hades is! Hades is someone who has repeatedly fucked over demeter, going as far as basically verbally abusing her when she tries to become queen. We've seen him rush relationship and put his partners in uncomfortable situations they aren't comfortable in. Most importantly we haven't seen him apologize or even work towards fixing those mistakes he's made. Of course Demeter would be unhappy with her daughter dating him, especially when you take into account that she is absolutely terrified that her daughter is going to abused because she's a fertility goddess... powers that hades already has taken advantage of.

Last time demeter saw both of them they refused to properly communicate with her, and treated the mere mention of her bringing persephone home the same you would a death threat. I will admit that rs is great at writing.. of horribly one sided relationships and black and white mortality.

Again she had the opportunity to make a extremely heartfelt mother and daughter moment where she lets persephone and demeter talk about their struggles. We could let hades and persephone faults actually be questioned and have them grow into better people but nope! rs wanted a dumb plot line that *spoilers* ends up with hades having to "save" Persephone with a proposal! Cause you know just fuck persephone admitting she wanted there relationship to go slow!

Anyway my dream ending for this comic is minthe and demeter teaming up to beat the shit out of persephone and hades.

Also last note, rs please just give hestia a constant double chin. Stop being a fucking coward and half assing basically the only plus-sized rep you have in this comic.

[funnywormz]

the toshiro hate discourse is crazy on twitter and tiktok lately. not only they're hating on him for being a jerk to Laios but also having a crush on Falin. they're saying he was hypocritical for liking Falin's personality when she's very much the same to Laios, the guy he find annoying. and also for being in the way of Marcille x Falin ship.

now I love the Farcille ship but dear lord do you have to go this far just to hate on toshiro.

one last thing, this one I don't see alot but is so awful and is that some fans think toshiro is a slave owner (??) cus his family bought izutsumi and tade to work as fighters wtfff

YEAH i find the people who hate on toshiro because of farcille odd because he doesn't even get in the way of it? like he just has a crush on falin but she doesn't feel the same way about him anyways. it's also strange when people act like falin and laios are exactly the same and call toshiro a hypocrite for liking falin. falin is very gentle and kind whereas laios is definitely a bit more loud and abrasive at times. i think toshiro struggled to be around laios because laios was overstimulating and exhausting for him, whereas falin wasn't any of those things. they're two very different people so i don't think it's weird that he likes one and dislikes the other

i think maybe the "slave owner" criticism has a little more merit? because his parents do literally own them, and izutsumi at least had a curse put on her by maizuru which was meant to prevent her from escaping. so like....... they are literally slaves and are under the control of his family/maizuru. although toshiro doesn't own anyone himself and was just a kid when his parents "bought" tade, izutsumi etc., he's still complicit in the aspect that he still uses the labour of these people. he does know it isn't right, and has considered talking to tade about it, and lets izutsumi go when she escapes. but he doesn't make any effort to free them himself, doesn't ask maizuru to remove the curse on izutsumi, and overall just seems to view the fact that his family are slave owners and human traffickers as something mildly uncomfortable rather than the evil awful thing that it is.

i don't think toshiro is a bad person, and he does know what his family is doing is bad, but he's also a very passive person. he's so reserved and anxious about social interaction that it interferes with him telling the truth to laios, but also gets in the way of him properly criticising or standing up to his father in a way that would make a difference, or making a big step like actually talking to tade about how her situation isn't fair at all. so yeah while it wouldn't be accurate to call him a slave owner, i think he is somewhat complicit in the practice of it and deserves criticism for that

idk i don't think toshiro is a horrible person as some in the fandom paint him out to be, and there are a lot of ways people insult him that are just straight up mischaracterisation/projection/etc. but at the same time he isn't perfect and i think there are valid reasons for people to dislike him. but i definitely do agree with the first part of this ask in that most of the reasons people have for hating him are just rlly silly lol

(i hope i approached this topic properly btw, i know slavery is a very dark and sensitive topic for many people and the last thing i would want to do is undermine the severity of it)

[brothersgrim]

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@lunarruled​ asked:

🍓  :    how is my muse typically seen by others?  does it ring true to who they really are?  does their reputation matter to them?  (for both!) 

People are terrified of them. You do not mess with the Brothers of Destruction. If you do, they will hurt you. They might even try to kill you. That’s just how they are. At the same time, people don’t see them as human. They’re called everything in the book aside from ‘person’, and it shows a lot in the treatment they get. Run the Undertaker over with a car, it’s fine, he’ll just come back. Set Kane on fire, it’s funny, it’s not like he’s a person. There’s multiple instances of people casually discussing how often the Undertaker was sold as a slave to different owners, and when Paul Heyman steals the urn, the conversation isn’t ‘even if that isn’t magic, that’s fucked up, but in context it’s horrifying’, the conversation is ‘wow, if Paul Heyman controls the Undertaker, that makes him the most powerful man in the Federation’. This is just something people talk about there. Or, let’s think about Kane and his journey through therapy. Before he gets therapy, people treat him like a dog. There’s a stretch of time in the late 90s where Kane is forced to work for the McMahons, and they literally whistle to call him over. People talk about him like he’s deaf just because he doesn’t speak. His trauma is treated as a joke, and when he finally snaps and goes on a rampage, reminds them that he has skewed morals, fire powers, and three hundred pounds of muscle, they call him a monster.  So Kane gets therapy, starts trying to be normal, and they insult him for that. They ask him when he got so soft. They ask him where the monster went. And then when he goes back to the Old Ways, he gets yelled at for that, too. 

So the long and short of it is, the brothers can’t win. 

But have they earned their reputations? 

The simple answer is yes, absolutely. People SHOULD be scared of them, the brothers are TERRIFYING. They’re seven feet tall, three hundred pounds of Go To The Morgue, and that’s before you get into their superpowers. Taker is immortal. It doesn’t matter what you do to him, he’ll come back mad about it. They can both teleport. Taker shoots lightning, Kane summons fire, and they can both hold grudges that last for literal decades. The list of wild shit they do goes on, and on, and on, and their morals are very flexible. You never completely know what’s going to set them off or how far they’ll go to get ‘revenge’. But Taker is also regarded as a force of justice within the Federation - people come to him for help, for advice, to help solve problems. He’s damn good at that, too, and the fact that people listen to him (in part because they’re afraid) is something he’s earned. 

What they haven’t earned is the horrible treatment they get at the hands of their coworkers. No, they’re not human. Yes, they’ve been through a whole lot of wild stuff. But they really don’t deserve the constant abuse and dehumanization they’re subjected to - and while, yes, the brothers have been in the wrong before, a lot of what they end up doing is retaliation against horrible and unfair treatment, so can you really blame them? They deserve a little murder now and again. 

And yes, their reputation is important to them. It’s how they market themselves, for one. They get their matches because they’re worth matching. They have the pull they do because people are afraid of them. That being said, Taker prefers being alone (safe for his in crowd), so he likes people respecting him, but not wanting to get close. Kane isn’t quite like that. For Kane, isolation was a threat, a punishment, and he took a long time to unlearn that. He doesn’t like being alone. Even just having his brother helps (he also though having Paul, XPac, Tori, etc, helped, but they absolutely did not), but he wants to be around people. Not a lot of people - that gets overwhelming - but he’s always been the more social and extroverted of the brothers, and the different ways they were abused and conditioned means that’s still the case (usually - he has bad days and needs to be alone sometimes, too). But even he wants people to be afraid of him. It’s a way of keeping himself safe. And yes, they will both punch you a whole lot if they think you aren’t giving them the right respect. 

Wholesome family entertainment.

[theuniverseawakens347]

You want to have a child but don’t want to have conversation with them so how many of you ended up with abortions 14 at prep pregnant or 16 or got STDs in your parents don’t know about them or got DIY ( DUIS- indian love Morgan tanning salon crystal graduation nice car recycled dick knees jeep.. Crystal left n you stayed brought Morgan in ) … ( at autocorrect NOPE TOU HOS IS ATUPID) and your parents don’t know about them or arrested your parents don’t know about it Had car accident. Your parents don’t know about the major whopping of money that your parents don’t know about!?

Speech text…

It is the major things that have happened in my life that revolve around a big sum of money. My adopted parents know about the minor things. I never had an abortion. I never stole drugs off of anybody all of these worse fucking fears for me ar things that have literally happened to her, that’s weird. You put your projections onto me but not take care of you but put me in psych words that I don’t need and make me fucking homeless and then say I’m choosing to throw my life away bitch you’re living in my ancestors house you fucking slave owner ( India love all the money you have is off of my family. You help set up for fucking murder life insurance policies or you back ended robbed will.i.am’s fucking music studio for some fucking money just to be caught on your fucking knees horribly sucking dick sorry, POPS ) 

THEN AFOPTED THE QUEEN OF THE WORKD .. and discarded Jerel like sac of empty rib slab…

This is how your mental work. This is how your life look that’s why your friends fucking left. You the ones who were the closest to you when I first got into the house and no longer support you and Howard. They’re checking in, but they legitimately do not give a fuck they’re trying to see if there’s fucking change. I haven’t been around you for about 2 1/2 months straight and nothing has changed on Lee Garlington‘s end and not on Howard either ( behind the scenes sure but not to the face .. so again you journal but not putting in action - rightful family has a due date .. BUT ALSO YOU CUD HAVE FIXED BEING IN PUR LIVES MISS “I wana adopt you to give you a better than than your birth family that’s big shot celebrities cause TRIATAN looks small and trash - based on his hair )

… that’s weird of you he was handsome on FaceTime then ya see em in person and just

“He’s not good enough” … you watched me on FaceTime for about 3 months straight laughing like kids …

🫤

Someone’s jealous THEY THREW THEIR LIFE AWAY. .. 2020 COVID how many lives I live and a strong foundation to HOW MANY BUSINESSES!??

- MY FUCKING HAPPINESS CHECKING YOUR EGO - UR BANK ACCOUNT I JUST STOLE 💋 

India love you should stop editing my Tumblr post and sending them to Woosah and whomever else in the fitness community because Shawty yes as a trainer it’s fucked up of you to promote her your page fitness I am or whatever you were but as your own self India I’m pretty sure somebody told you to stop and that’s why you stop training with who you stop training with. You started to take the lazy way out and feed your followers is fake fucking Insecure BBL lifestyle that falls back on you and the trainers your training with now you’re coming to them with my fitness guide saying I want you to just watch me do this or fill me do this so you’re paying them to promote my fitness guide bitch when you never asked me for that shit And what’s happening with you behind the scenes? How do you get my fitness guide in India? Why are you selling my shit with Evelyn Mazzio Rego? I’m suing the entire fitness community … INDIA YOURE NOT GETTING MONEY - BEYONCÉ LOST IT ALL THEN DID REAISSANCE AND I TOOK THAT BANK TOO.. NOW YOU GOING TO FEDERAL DEATH ROW FOR MAKING ME HOMELESS - the law degree you fucked for. , your knees. 

[thefireflyreader]

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#5

FINALLY A BINGO!

Codywan Fluff Bingo here!

I just realized that I didn't post the cards for this one or the last one, so I'll edit it later and add them. But it's like 1:45 am here and I have a busy day tomorrow and Saturday. But please enjoy!

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8 notes - Posted September 2, 2022

#4

Final Fill! Bingo

Alright, here's the last one I'll be posting to the collection. Will continue my personal series with the other prompts eventually. This one is rated M.

RATED M.

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9 notes - Posted July 10, 2022

#3

Ant?!? I need to know more 🥺🤲

Oh! There's so little but so much. Ant likes bugs, especially ants. Because he was the "runt" of his batch, and then he learned that ants can lift between 10-50 times their body weight. So he wants to be like ants. He's a bit nerdy and quiet. At the end of the war, he is only 2 (physically four) years old. In fluffy timelines, he gets adopted by Cody and Obi-wan. I haven't decided what happens in less fluffy timelines.

9 notes - Posted July 21, 2022

#2

My First Codywan Kiss Bingo Fill

12 notes - Posted July 5, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

An Anakin Deep Dive

So this is going to be mostly things that are from canon/legends. I will mention headcanons that I have, but I'll admit they are headcanons. Might have spoilers for the Kenobi show. I'll see if after I finish typing this up that still applies. Reason for this post. Well, I feel like people talk very negatively about Anakin, which has only been made a bit worse by the Kenobi show. And I think people forget some things about him. Anakin's timeline:

Birth to 2: He was a slave with an abusive master. Now most people assume he doesn't remember this. However, there is a novel about Vader (I believe it's just called Vader) that actually implies he does remember some of this.

2-9: He was given to Watto. Or well won by Watto. Now Watto was not a horrible master by any means. However, Anakin was still a slave. He was not free. This next part is more speculation than canon/legends, but what are the chances Anakin knew how to read or write? He may have known basic math since Watto was a shop owner and he may have handled customers.

(Also I don't believe him when he says he's not afraid of the chip blowing him up. You're nine.)

9-18/19: He's a Padawan with Obi-wan. We don't know much about this time period. Because even the extend universe novels about him as a padawan happen shortly after he gets to the temple and right before he's knighted during the clone wars. However, expanding on the reading/writing thing mentioned earlier, if he knew to read/write, it was because Shmi taught him, but she was an slave from being a young girl (Age not specified), so there's a good chance she didn't know either. Either way, Anakin would have been miles behind his fellow peers within the Jedi Order. He was immediately accepted as a Padawan, which people may have been jealous of. Although, considering Obi-wan had just been knighted, this may not be as bad as if someone like Master Windu had taken him.

There are three things we know Anakin is good at: flying, mechanics, and sparring. However, sparring is the only one of those things Obi-wan trained him in.

19: He marries Padme and is immediately thrown into the Clone Wars.

19-22/23: Clone Wars, where some events were made to directly affects Anakin's relationship with his friends.

Umbara: Rex was either supposed to die or lose trust in Anakin. Anakin was pulled away by the Chancellor for reasons we don't know and nothing seemed to happen that would warrant him leaving the 501st.

Wrong Jedi: Ahsoka leaves the Order, because they kicked her out because she was accused of something she didn't do. There really wasn't much of an apology from the Jedi in terms of that, so double whammy. Ahsoka leaves, so Anakin loses some of his support and he is mad at the Jedi.

Hardeen: Name one reason it had to be Obi-wan that went undercover. The bounty hunter needed to have esteem by killing someone well known? Okay, and? It's literally Vos's job to do this kind of undercover work. Also, there was no reason Anakin couldn't have been informed after the mission started, because he would need the raw emotions. Also why was he allowed to go after "Hardeen?"

22/23: Anakin fell to the Dark side, partially due to manipulation from Palpatine, the Jedi mishandling him at times, and his own struggles with his emotions.

My main point is that people seem to forget about the trauma Anakin went through and also that he was only 22 maybe 23 when he fell to the dark side. He wasn't an adult who had his life together. He was at war while still a teenage. Yes, 19 while considered an adult is still a teenager. His brain wasn't even fully developed when he fell. My dad likes to tell me all the time that the frontal cortex, where processing consequences happens, doesn't fully develop until you're 26.

He was mishandled a bit by the Jedi. It felt, at times, that the Jedi were treating him as if he had been in the temple his whole life, especially in ROTS, where he speaks to Yoda about his nightmares of losing Padme. He goes to ask for help and is basically told to let it go. Also, in the few novels about Anakin's time as Obi-wan's padawan, he continuously struggles with Obi-wan's teaching style. And to me, it boils down to a difference in love language. Anakin seems to thrive off words of affirmation, and maybe a little bit of touch, while Obi-wan seems to use and react better to acts of service. Obi-wan tends to show Anakin he is proud of him or that he loves him, when Anakin needs him to tell him. (And I can go on another long rant about why Obi-wan is the way he is. Specifically how Qui-Gon screwed him up.)

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[minthe-lover]

Analysis episode 210

Now the main thing I like about this chapter is that it shows Hades being an obvious asshole, hades was always kinda of an asshole but most of the time it's played off as either not a big deal or a joke. So having it written explicitly is a good thing the main problem is the story isn't written to probably make those traits good.

Now the reason stories with asshole main characters work is cause the asshole doesn't get what they want. Hades while yes he is improving on a surface level he isn't facing any consequences for his actions, in the end he will still get what he wants. Think of bojack horseman(spoilers), yes he improved and gets the life he does want but the reason it is so amazing is because he faces consequences for his actions... yes he gets a happy ending but he doesn't get the perfect life he wanted.. and he faces the consequences for hurting so many people and rightfully so. (and yes I feel like a should make the connection to penny and Persephone... cause yes nothing they did is illegal.. but it is gross)

Now another big problem about this chapter is something that is found throughout the whole comic, when people besides the main character express their anger they are viewed as overreacting and in the wrong. It was first shown best in the chapter where Minthe is turned into a plant.. Minthe insults Hades and is framed as a horrible person, but Persephone expresses her anger and turns minthe into a plant and that is framed as just a lapse of emotions.

In this chapter you have Hades objectively being a terrible person, ruining Demeters plan for a petty reason and then insulting her but that's the old Hades! he's not a bad guy! he didn't give up the volcanoes.. cause uhhh his dead mother?? so he's not a bad guy! but demeter I mean she got insulted to the point of tears and has her plans ruined and is rightfully angry but she is the emotional and terrible one cause she doesn't want Hades to get everything he wants!

When Hades or Persephone acts badly their is always an excuse and a good reason.. but when other people act badly.. even if their is a good reason they are horrible and in the wrong.

also side note... why does the vote have to be unanimous, like Demeter still got more votes... why the hell is this the problem. Also hades... you have brain cells right?? just make a plan with Demeter to let her be the queen of the mortal realm but you still keep the volcanoes.. like come on it's not that complicated.

That and I can't help but see the consent mentioning of how Demeter jewelry is junk and terrible, like she is one of the strongest gods with a huge fortune.. and her jewelry is shit? but even if they aren't... does it matter, why is this a point brought up twice, is it really that important to point out that Demeter buys beautiful but cheap jewelry... cause maybe it's just me but I prefer cheap beautiful jewelry to expensive beautiful jewelry.

Lastly Demeter is framed as a horrible person for not wanting for her daughter to be with someone who has been a huge asshole! She clearly has good reason to not want her daughter to date someone who has been extremely cruel and shallow along with being her age and a literal slave owner.

not to mention Demeter was repeatedly forgotten mistreated and framed as an asshole for rightfully being worried for her daughter. The story goes on and on about how Hades is ostracized and viewed as cruel... when the same thing happens to Demeter. Both Hera and Hestia say that their scared of her, it's clear she is pretty isolated from most of the other god as she seemed to be one of the few gods that stay in the mortal realm. Again Hades is framed as the only god in which this negatively effects them and thus should be given sympathy but anyone else should just be taken as face value.

Last point is about Persephone.

No Persephone isn't "thicc" or fat... yes in some chapter she has a much more sexualized body this but in this chapter she is skinny with just normal proportions.. like... I really pity the people who think she is fat or "thicc"... cause they must have a terribly skewed sense of how real bodies are. like holy shit the amount of people gushing that this is "thicc" just.. hurts my soul-

and to finish this off you all must be cursed with fuck up face... is this supposed to be funny??? cause it really just looks weird-

[nymphsupremacy]

Hi, Hope you're doing good! I don't know if I should be sending critiques of LO or not, because I remember you once said something about you not being a critique blog anymore?

But screw it..

Anyway,I know it's been already adressed a couple of times, but one thing that never sat right with me with the fandom was that when it came to characters that were supposed to be "antagonists" (demeter,zeus, minthe, at a certain point thanotos)and the mistakes they made, EVERYTHING WAS BLACK AND WHITE , zeus is a satanic jerk and a power hungry monarch who only cares about his power and hates his family, minthe is an abuser and a horrible person , demeter is an abusive b***h who caused her daughter immense suffering, and when you attempted to bring up said antagonists' complexities and moral struggles you'd be deemed an awful person who defended abuse and misogyny.(one LO fan and an avid hater of demeter's character, for example, called me an "abuse supporter" and said "they were sorry for my future children because I was going to be a sc*m bag mom to them " and my favorite:of course you'd defend this , because it's so normalized to abuse children and put mental and emotional and physical suffering on them in asia" , I'm asian btw)

But.. when hades, persephone , hera etc made a mistake( Hades kidnapping and Eye-gouging some reporter dude and being a literal slave owner,persephone murdering hundreds of villagers ( yeah artemis and apollo did it too , but it was one family while perse almost killed an entire village and unlike apollo and artemis attempted to hide it)) the fans were all suddenly experts on moral complexity and morally grey areas, and would preach about how "not everything is black and white, nobody is perfect" which just seems very hypocritical, You can't be selectively open-minded.Either every character is viewed open mindedly or every one is viewed through a black and white lens.

phew, okay that was super lengthy,I apologize, would appreciate if you read it,have a good one:)

Talk about double standards. Fans do be like that alot so I understand the frustration all too well. I've seen too many people call others who defend and point out minthe's complexities as abusers told them that their mentally ill and should go to therapy. Personally I've had the displeasure of encountering a stan imply that I was a rapist apologist for liking LO Zeus when he's like very vanilla compared to his og self. People used to bring up his myth counterpart alot to shame me for liking LO Zeus

[fuckinglovemanga]

Another post about black Louis

Ok so I feel the need to say my piece about this situation in a long post because I want to clarify a few things. First of all, in the fandom there are two kinds of people who disagree with the casting of Jacob Anderson as Louis. The first, is the downright racist people who have a problem purely because the actor is poc. I have nothing to say to these people. The second kind is the people who's problems stem from the changes that this will bring to the story. I would like to address these concerns and express my opinion on them.

Personally, my preferred option would be to use the vampire metaphor to address race in America. In the book, Louis and Lestat are vampires aka monsters, who own slaves and Lestat literally feeds off of the slaves' blood. Eventually, the slaves (who still have managed to preserve some of their African heritage and cultural consciousness) recognise that their masters are inhuman monsters. There is certainly something here. If Louis were to be, for example, the son of a slave owner with a female slave, his vampirism could represent his assimilation into the dominant white class, as he gradually becomes monstrous in the eyes of the other slaves. What I'm saying is, there is potential in this change storywise. There is, however, something I fear greatly.

There is a tendency in reboots and remakes to erase certain aspects of the story that are deemed problematic without ever addressing them or commenting on them in any way. This is the case with all the Disney remakes, in which racism is completely erased in an effort to make it like it never existed in the Disney company. This, to me, is abhorrent, as it prevents racism from being meaningfully addressed and commented on. If the new adaptation chooses to make Louis a black man and an owner of a brothel in order to erase the problematic history of white slave owner Louis, I will be disappointed. I believe that there should be space in media for characters such as the original Louis, as long as their behaviour and place in society is challenged by the story. In the original IWTV, even though it is, as I mentioned before commented on, it is, in my opinion, not enough. Also, to believe that a character who owned slaves can never be sympathetic to an audience is to believe that racism and horrible crimes against humanity can only be committed by inhuman monsters, and that is, unfortunately, not the case. Such portrayals reinforce the idea that we, as moral individuals, could never be racist or bigoted. They dehumanise the racists, thus absolving us of the crime of racism.

The point I'm trying to make, is that if the creators of the show mean to make something profound and poignant, they will not avoid addressing racism, or try to soften it's horrors by obscuring them in the story, but rather use the horror genre and specifically the vampire as a way to tell a meaningful story that tackles race in a manner that will challenge the audience. In order for this to happen, the writer's room should NOT just be a bunch of white people.

Anyway, these are my thoughts on the casting of Louis. We'll see what happens.

[antiloreolympus]

10 Anti LO Asks

1. Just a few basic definitions of deconstruction in literature" "Deconstruction is an approach to understanding the relationship between text and meaning." and "Deconstruction is defined as a way of analyzing literature that assumes that text cannot have a fixed meaning. An example of deconstruction is reading a novel twice, 20 years apart, and seeing how it has a different meaning each time." LO meets neither of these requirements, since it does not follow the original myth to begin with.

2. rachel truly has the biggest brain to not only make lesbians be the oppressors to the rich, heterosexual couple, she even made the lesbians oppress themselves. real 5D chess move there.

3. have you seen the lore Olympus au where they find out they’re actually trapped in smythes fan fiction and have to fight to reclaim their true selves/personalities because. Ther was a scene in it where real!apollo finally transforms into himself and saves LO!persephone from real!minotaur??? On god it was incredible

4. deadass its wild how like everyone and their moms (literally) can just stroll into hades' house all willy nilly? like at MOST i would be able to buy hermes and hecate being able to get in, but literally like?? no named flower nymphs can just stroll in? leto?? youd think the rich king with 7+ dogs would be able to like, invest in a lock at least.

5. What I wanna know is why smythe didn’t just use pan. Could be creepily older than her, historically known for at LEAST being sexually voracious (though I can’t say whether or not he was predatory) with a sadistic streak, a tie to nature that could make him obsessed with her, the fact that he could LITERALLY die at the end for a satisfying punishment? Girl Apollo was so nonsensical. If she’s gonna pick a random god to slander it may as well be one that makes sense

6. Still angry about Leto made into a SUN GOD that gaslights her kids. In the myth, Apollo & Artemis weren't known for wrath but one time they did team up to kill innocent mortals because a mortal woman shamed Leto for only having 2 kids (when fertility was highly praised). This story alone showed how gods are capable of horrible things because they don't put mortals on the same pedestal as their own.

If RS wanted to make Apollo a villain, at least make it like this story, where he's doing this out of love. Making Leto (a loving mother who's loved by her children) an abusive & manipulative parent served no purpose and instead just made Apollo's villainous arc clumsy because he didn't really CHOOSE to do any of it.

7. Rachel claiming LO is in the "monster boyfriend" genre is not only wrong, it's just insulting to actual monster fuckers. She could maybe argue it's a monster girlfriend comic, since hades gets off sexually to persephone turning into a giant and murdering people, but him?? how dare you. unless she means being a slave owner capitalist dictator is a monster, in which case maybe dont romanticize that kind of monster you white devil 💀

8. It's funny to see Smythe so against PJO given the fact that her and Riordan both regularly screw up their representation.

9. Tbh, I do not give a F * C K about his infertility. It doesn’t have to be shoved in the story and get the fans thinking Persephone will fix that because she’s a fertility goddess! I know I may sound rude but for Hades to lose his ability to give baby juice JUST TO BE KING??? Not a risk. What should’ve been his risk was knowing he would be alone in the underworld, just like it was addressed in his flashback of being eaten by Kronos. I have a ton of things I would like to say on Kronos as well but for now, I do not have any knowledge on Kronos in the original myth. 

10. tbh the fact lo hades wants kids yet shows zero actual empathy or patience screams he'd be a horrible father. for many of zeus' faults in myth, zeus fiercely loved his children and would do so much for them, especially his daughters. i know myth hades didnt have children but he seemed that he could be a strict but loving dad, but lo hades? nah, he seems too focused on himself and his wants to ever really give that up. Any kid he'd have would likely see their nannies more as parents than him.

[acegreenhorn]

Gotta rant here

In Dragon Age 2, a mage named Anders kills a handful of "innocent people" and that makes him "evil" and "just as bad as the oppressors". Get a fucking brain of you think that.

A system of oppression that's lasted a thousand years and killed COUNTLESS Innocents for circumstances of their birth IS NOT the same as revolting against that system!

Yes, there were innocent people who were not active in the system of oppression, but they are as Fuck weren't against it!

IT'S A FUCKING METAPHOR. The Chantry is Christianity, the Templars are Literally Templars, a system that we have/had here! Or you can call them Cops or Slavers or Enforcers. Mages are literally any group of people that were enslaved or colonized or nearly wiped out by Christianity.

To summarize. No one cries when they hear a slave killed their slave owner and the family. That's literally what happened in DA2. Anders was fed up, no one was listening to his peaceful protest, he was traumatized his entire life, and saw no other way to make people listen.

I don't fucking care that there were "innocents" in that building. They weren't innocent, they were all part of the problem. ESPECIALLY that Mother who didn't do her goddamn job of keeping the Templars in line. Just because she was "nice" didn't make her any less of a horrible person in the system.

In conclusion: "Anders is just as bad as the Templars" makes you braindead. Pee your pants.

[minthesupremacy]

You would think the people behind a blog praising "problematic" media and characters (one of their faves is RICK from rick and morty and rose quartz from SU omg stop) would be the first people to defend Minthe, not becoming bootlickers to a capitalist slave owner who likes em young and vulnerable? like you guys know if you lived in the LO universe you'd either be a lowly nymph like Minthe or his ghostly slave right? weirdos.

Literally! I like Minthe BECAUSE she's problematic, not in spite of it. I like Hades from Hadestown. He's a horrible person. I like Persephone from Hadestown, and sometimes write her worse than she explicitly is in canon (because HT unfortunately doesn't delve into the implications of Persephone's addiction & her callous words @ Hades in depth, so I have to do it myself!) But my point is, I like problematic characters. The more things they do wrong, the more I have to talk about and resolve! I love seeing internal logistics for horrible/morally gray people! >:D

[phantom-ellie]

Pretty much every time I've seen someone post angrily about Stede being a slave owner or former slave owner it has been in defense of Izzy, which has never made sense to me. Like there was a post where an Izzy fan was just railing calling Stede the greatest piece of shit ever, a horrible abusive owner of slaves... but also you should overlook literally every single thing Izzy says or does because... ?????? Like, I'm an Izzy neutral person, he's an antagonist and he does the job well, but it is absolutely insane to handwave away the actual terrible things Izzy did and then get mad at something Stede MIGHT have done, maybe, in your imagination. And both characters can be pieces of shit, it's not either/or. If you want to get mad at Stede for his potential slave-owning past, you should be doing that on behalf of Ed and the other BIPOC on the ship. Not on behalf of... Izzy Hands.

Also, if you are so enraged at Stede and hate him so much, why are you even watching this show? He doesn't have to be your favorite character but he is the focus of every episode and it seems kind of miserable to watch a show where you hate the main character that much.

every so often i see a fanfic where Stede mentions the plantation or owning slaves or something along those lines and i hope that all of those authors know that like. a slave-owner is not a person capable of loving or respecting people of color. someone who has owned human beings, especially as part of the transatlantic slave trade, where the justification is based upon race and the inherent inhumanity of Africans and the non-white, is not a person who can love or respect people of color. if you are writing Stede as a person who, for most of his adult life, owned slaves and operated a plantation, he is inherently going to be a person incapable of fully recognizing or respecting Ed, let alone the Black men on his crew like Roach, Oluwande, and Frenchie.

it just doesn't work like that. you cannot participate in the evil that is the slave trade for so long, and benefit from it, and then turn around and treat with respect and compassion people of the same race as the ones you currently have enslaved back on your estate that you abandoned.

its fucking wild that anyone could think otherwise. the show does not say that Stede Bonnet is a slave owner, and in fact David Jenkins specifically references that he's not writing that guy anymore than he's writing the Blackbeard who raped and organized the gang rape of captive women. obviously I can't control anyone, but please think for five seconds on if it would make sense that Stede could be the kind of person who owns slaves and a plantation and then turns around and respects and loves the humanity of people of color and cares about ruining Ed. please think about what sense it would make for him to take the products of slave labor and eagerly share them with Roach, Oluwande, and Frenchie, and that none of these Black men would have a concern in the world about it, these Black men who literally kill British officers for calling them slaves and using racial insults.